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chris stevens was one of our kerry best. i started off again to the peace corps in morocco with a fluent arabic speaker. served with distinction throughout the arab world. when asked if he would be interested in going to benghazi, we did not initially have any support to speak up. he was thrilled. he understood what it would mean. in the wake of this tragedy, this terrible terrorist attack, i think one of the most poignant of events has been overlooked. that is what happened after the libyan people from benghazi to tripoli learned that chris stevens, someone they got to know and trust said had been murdered. they went into the streets. a protest and themselves. thousands, tens of thousands. they made it clear that was not the kind of country they were trying to build. >> thank you. >> thank you, welcome madam secretary be more the tragic loss of four extraordinarily brave americans, including ambassador chris stevens. one of my concerns is we seem to be re-learning the same lessons again and again. after the august 1988 bomb
chris stevens was one of our kerry best. i started off again to the peace corps in morocco with a fluent arabic speaker. served with distinction throughout the arab world. when asked if he would be interested in going to benghazi, we did not initially have any support to speak up. he was thrilled. he understood what it would mean. in the wake of this tragedy, this terrible terrorist attack, i think one of the most poignant of events has been overlooked. that is what happened after the libyan...
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senator kerry >> thank you. -- senator. >> thank you. you have always spoken out forcefully where required. this is maybe the last time you come before us as secretary. i want to thank you for your advocacy on behalf of women around the globe. you will be sorely missed. i hope not for too long. as you have said, you were heartbroken by those losses in benghazi. we saw your face many times today, as well. you were heartbroken personally and professionally. rather than pointing to others for their deficiencies, you stepped up and convened an accountability to review board to look into this in detail. you asked them to tell it the way they saw it. i want to give you my take on that. i want to go to something the senator said which i agree with. the first report we got from the intelligence community a week or so after was very confusing. it was not helpful to us. all of us felt that way. i want to speak for myself. the difference between that meeting and the meeting we had with those cochairs could not have been more different. they were so
senator kerry >> thank you. -- senator. >> thank you. you have always spoken out forcefully where required. this is maybe the last time you come before us as secretary. i want to thank you for your advocacy on behalf of women around the globe. you will be sorely missed. i hope not for too long. as you have said, you were heartbroken by those losses in benghazi. we saw your face many times today, as well. you were heartbroken personally and professionally. rather than pointing to...
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senator kerry tom hines thrilled to be here -- senator kerry, i am in built to be here. i cannot think of anyone better to continue the efforts of the current administration. thank you for being willing to take on this task. that may well in your family -- let me welcome your family. let me just say i look forward to casting level -- casting my vote in support of u.s. secretary of state and the also join the in defending the red sox and the patriots. >> finally. thank you. >> i want to echo the concern about continuing to support an agenda that urges equal rights and opportunities for women around the world. i think about if we had a situation in many of the conflict areas we are facing now where women share the same equality and opportunity that the men do in those areas, that we would be facing a very different challenge. i also want to go back. you mentioned syria and being in what appears to be the final period of assad rule. one of the issues we're facing there is what happened to the chemical weapons should assad fall. yesterday at the hearing on bank gotti, there
senator kerry tom hines thrilled to be here -- senator kerry, i am in built to be here. i cannot think of anyone better to continue the efforts of the current administration. thank you for being willing to take on this task. that may well in your family -- let me welcome your family. let me just say i look forward to casting level -- casting my vote in support of u.s. secretary of state and the also join the in defending the red sox and the patriots. >> finally. thank you. >> i want...
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on thursday, the hearing for senator john kerry of massachusetts. senator kerry is testifying before the senate foreign relations committee, which he currently chaired. let coverage on c-span and c- span radio at 10 a.m. eastern -- live coverage on c-span and c-span radio at 10 a.m. eastern. and chuck hagel on the senate armed services committee. he is the president's defense secretary nominee. live on january 31 on c-span and c-span radio. >> three meters. >> contact. >> good to see you. >> it is hard to realize now 25 years after apollo-soyuz what the climate was like back then. in a way after the stalin years and the fears, issue and all of that sort of thing, the soviets were very foreign to us, you know? after some of the things that happened, without they were a pretty aggressive people. i would not say monsters, but they probably thought we were monsters. we very quickly broke through that. when you deal with people in the same line of work as you and you are around them for some time, you discover they are human beings. >> this weekend on "a
on thursday, the hearing for senator john kerry of massachusetts. senator kerry is testifying before the senate foreign relations committee, which he currently chaired. let coverage on c-span and c- span radio at 10 a.m. eastern -- live coverage on c-span and c-span radio at 10 a.m. eastern. and chuck hagel on the senate armed services committee. he is the president's defense secretary nominee. live on january 31 on c-span and c-span radio. >> three meters. >> contact. >> good...